Kuprian Kirkizh

Kuprian Osipovich Kirkizh (29 September 1888-24 May 1932) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1927 to 1929, succeeding Vladimir Ivanov and preceding Nikolay Gikalo.

Biography
Kuprian Osipovich Kirkizh was born in Smoliansky, Russian Empire in 1888, and he joined the Bolsheviks in 1910 while working at a paper mill in Riga, Latvia. In 1917, he became Chairman of the VEK Executive Committee in Kharkov, Ukraine, and he took part in the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. In 1920, he became a divisional commissar during the campaigns against Anton Denikin and Nestor Makhno. From 1927 to 1929, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, and he was a member of the CPSU Central Committee from 1925 to 1930. He died in a car accident in Moscow in 1932.